Report reveals that official who dismantled Russian disinformation unit has ties to the Kremlin

A senior official who dismantled the U.S. government's Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with ties to the Kremlin, revealed The Telegraph.

According to the British newspaper, Darren Beattie has caused alarm in the State Department (DOS), because of his pro-Russian views, since he was appointed in February as acting undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

This position deals with the public image of U.S. diplomacy around the world.

Beattie "is married to a woman whose uncle has held various positions in Russian politics and once received a personal 'thank you' message from Vladimir Putin," The Telegraph revealed.

According to the British newspaper claims, before he joined the government, the official wrote messages on social networks suggesting that Putin should "infiltrate" into Western institutions, while attacking what he described as the "US globalist empire."

In 2022 he wrote "The US government has been supporting Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups in their obsessive proxy war against Russia."

The Telegraph asserted that "many of Beattie's social media posts also refer to China, repeatedly calling on the United States to hand over Taiwan to Beijing, and calling Britain a 'poor, pathetic kingdom' that would be 'far better off under Chinese rule'."

Beattie was a member of the first Trump Administration, but after being fired in 2018 for allegedly attending a white nationalist conference, he reinvented himself as an alt-Right media figure.